New allegations besiege Murdoch media empire

LONDON — Rupert Murdoch’s media empire was besieged Mon­day by accu­sa­tions that two more of his British news­pa­pers engaged in hack­ing, decep­tion and pri­vacy vio­la­tions that included access­ing for­mer Prime Min­is­ter Gor­don Brown’s bank account infor­ma­tion and steal­ing the med­ical records of his seri­ously ill baby son.